u/Basketball_Reference

We've recently added thousands of unofficial game-level player and team statistics to NBA gamelogs and box scores on Basketball Reference, covering blocks, steals, turnovers, and offensive rebounds in seasons before these categories were "officially" tracked by the league. The data spans games from the early 1950s through the mid-1970s and represents thousands of game lines that until now haven't lived anywhere on the site.

The best way to learn about this update is though Mike Lynch's blog post: https://www.sports-reference.com/blog/2026/04/thousands-of-unofficial-game-level-totals-added-to-basketball-reference/

Here's the spread of the new coverage:

• Team turnovers: 2,858 game lines from 1951 through 1973, by far the deepest collection. Twenty-five franchises represented.
• Player turnovers: 841 game lines from 1966 through 1977, covering 194 players.
• Player blocks: 355 game lines from 1958 through 1973, covering 43 players.
• Player steals: 137 game lines from 1961 through 1973, covering 47 players.
• Team blocks and team steals: smaller pulls, primarily from the early 1970s Trail Blazers, who tracked blocks and steals for every player/team game from their inception as a franchise in 1970-71. What we added is what we were able to find reported in the Portland newspapers.
• Offensive rebounds: a small set of player and team game lines from 1960 through 1973 — the thinnest category, but with some genuinely striking individual games (more on that below).

A couple nuggets that can be found in the blog post:

• We have block data for 214 of Wilt Chamberlain's games, and across those 214 games he recorded 1,611 blocks, which comes out to roughly 7.5 per game.
• Jerry West had 126 steals across 17 covered games — 7.4 per game — including a 12-steal performance against Phoenix in April 1970.

Carmelo Anthony scored 26 points in a 121-63 victory over the Hornets. Denver went on to win the series, 4 games to 1.

Box score: https://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/200904270NOH.html

Below is the leaderboard for largest margins of victory in postseason history:

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Rk	Player	Count
1	LeBron James	123
2	Michael Jordan	109
3	Kobe Bryant	88
4	Kevin Durant	77
5	Kareem Abdul-Jabbar	75
6	Jerry West	74
7	Elgin Baylor	60
8	Stephen Curry	60
9	Shaquille ONeal	55
10	Karl Malone	54
11	Hakeem Olajuwon	53
12	James Harden	49
13	Dirk Nowitzki	46
14	Larry Bird	43
15	Wilt Chamberlain	42
16	Giannis Antetokounmpo	37
17	Tim Duncan	36
18	Allen Iverson	36
19	Kawhi Leonard	36
20	Nikola Jokic	35
21	Jayson Tatum	35
22	Dwyane Wade	34

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